Zoltan Kodaly Quotes

I think having musical training as a child was really, really important. I studied piano as a child. Piano is a great instrument to understand musical theory on. I think I have that in my brain somewhere.

I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.

It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

Reading music has opened up me up so much. I've been experimenting for so long and trying to make sense of things just from my ears. It takes forever. Now I can get where I want much quicker.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.